Haoran Chang is a visual artist, media art researcher, and experimental game designer. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate at York University in Cinema and Media Studies and pursuing a diploma in Asian Studies. His practice and research focus on game studies, immersive media, posthuman media, ethnographic game design, somatic design, and art in cosmotechnics. His research-creation dissertation examines how ethnographic game design methods and somatic principles can address the limitations of current health gamification applications through the lens of Daoist practice.